Winter Roads: Dream Team (King of Obsolete Winter Roads Book 4) by Joey Barnes (17 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This is my 4th book in the 10-book series; Winter Roads: Dream Team the year 2012. Which was a busy year with high-risk adventures long after the Winter Roads had been closed by the government. Plus, I was officially done working a "real job" which allowed me to return to my life as the King of Obsolete. By the end of 2012, I had signed my Hollywood contract that was going to make me rich and famous which I am still waiting almost 10 years later. Being a single parent, my young teenage daughter Xena, got to grow up enjoying my adventures. But without all the mis-adventures and fun, I would have never gotten on the TV show Ice Road Truckers for my 15 seconds of fame around the world. These Winter Road books are written through the covid 19 lock downs April to September 2021. I also credit the lock downs for bettering myself with being able to write and have Amazon feature my books around the world. This Amazon was all new to me when I first asked them in January 2021 to publish my ...

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Evaporative Cooling: The Science of Beating the Heat by D. James Benton (6 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Evaporative cooling is vital for life and industry. Benefiting from this essential process is as natural as sweating. It's the most efficient means of rejecting unwanted heat. The economy of evaporative cooling has made it the first choice of manufacturing and power production. There is rarely time to adequately address this important topic in a course on heat transfer. Many articles and books present the mechanical and even economic aspects of evaporative cooling. This book presents the computational (i.e., mathematical) aspects. All of the software discussed in this book is available free on-line, including considerable source code.

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Thermochemical Reactions: Numerical Solutions by D. James Benton (5 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Thermochemistry is the science of analyzing molecular reactions to determine if they are spontaneous, energy absorbing or releasing, and to predict the product mole ratios and rates. Chemical reactions, like most other processes, tend to follow the path of free energy minimization or entropy maximization. This principle forms the mathematical basis for the analytical approach. This book is a how-to manual, filled with many examples and comes with all the code you need to accomplish this task.

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Human-Nature Interactions: Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes by Ieva Misiune (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the importance of an integrative understanding of socio-ecological systems, where healthy ecosystems underpin the quality of life and societal activities largely drive environmental changes. Readers will obtain a comprehensive overview of the many and diverse ways the relationships between people and nature can be characterized. This includes understanding how people assign values to nature, discuss how human-nature interactions are shaped and provide examples of how these values and interactions can be systematically assessed across different land systems in Europe and beyond. This open access book ...

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Magnetism: A Force Shaping the Universe by Alan Hall (7 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This essay is a slight revamp of my original magnetism discourse. It contains some new information and is illustrated. The essay also contains a list of pertinent references and further reading material.

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10,000 Feet & Climbing: Dummies guide to Personal Flying Machines by Paras Sachan (4 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

A seamless guide to modern personal flying machines for the flying enthusiasts. 10,000 Feet & Climbing contains chapters featuring the latest personal aircraft, ranging from microlights to flying cars. Apart from covering the technical aspect, information like performance, pricing, ownership, safety, and applications of various aircraft has been included. This book also features flying experience, opinion pieces and adventure stories of two champion pilots from Austria and the USA respectively. Crafted with colorful HD pictures, the book's language has been kept simple and humorous. A small glossary at the beginning followed by structured chapters will provide the readers with a refreshing and seamless content experience. Even if you are new to the field of aviation, this guide will help you understand the crucial concepts relating to small aircraft design, performance, operation, and even ownership regulations. Get started with it to enter the exciting world of personal flying!

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Shade Tree 35 by Charlie Hull (4 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

This is more than an account of the restoration of a 1935 Ford truck. It is about the life of the man who restored it, working most often beneath the shelter of mere tree branches. It is the telling of the searching, finding and the making of various parts for the truck over the years, as well as the lessons learned along the way. It is the telling of how new life was breathed into the old 35, as well as how eternal life was breathed into the man, Charlie Patrick Hull Jr., by God Almighty.

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CNC Programming Skills: Program Entry and Editing on Fanuc Machines by S. K. Sinha (33 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This is the revised edition (2023) of the earlier book, published in 2015. In this edition, the various types of MDI/MOP designs for CNC machines are explained in detail, with figures. This would help in familiarizing with the machine even if the person is not standing in front of the machine. Also discussed is Software Operator's Panel which has certain MOP-like functions, selectable through "software switches." An Index at the end of the book is also added in the paperback version, for easy searching of certain key words. This book is a part of the recently-published book, "Computer-Aided Manufacturing: CNC Lathe, Probing & FMS," by the same author. Therefore, if one already has the CAM (Computer-Aided Manufacturing) book, this book need not be purchased. The CAM book is in form of a handbook for CNC lathe, covering almost everything related to programming (G-code programming as well as macro programming), tooling and operation. Do you know how to insert a part of a program into ...

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Amazon Echo Dot: Advanced Amazon Echo User Guide to Help You Use Amazon Echo Dot in 2017 & Enrich Your Smart Home by Paul Weber (12 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Discover how to convert this little hockey puck into your personal assistant and add more convenience to your life!The Amazon echo dot manual it is a step-by-step guide that covers advanced uses of echo dot. You will learn how to setup Amazon echo dot and connect all your smart devices and applications of your house with echo effortlessly. Going through Amazon echo dot manual you will be able to • Fully understand IFTTT recipes to link your devices with Amazon echo dot. You will learn how to make your life easy with the use of all these tips & tricks. The recipes are easy to follow and will help you in creating your own recipe • Get to know how to group your devices and understand the method to solve numerous problems • Clearly understand all advanced hacks known to expert echo dot users and Increase efficiency of Amazon Echo Dot • And most of all, you will save hours running errands and you will control your home and work life from a simple voice command "Alexa,... ...

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Fire Stick: Amazon Fire TV Stick Guide to Help You Install Kodi on Your Fire Stick & Immerse You into The World of Your Media by Paul Weber (23 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Discover How to Unlock The True Potential of Your Device and Turn Boring Television into a Smart TV With a Plethora of New Features!Do you want to get more out of your entertainment center? Is that the original manual provided with the Fire Stick is a complicated and extremely boring? If so, then this Amazon Fire TV Stick User Guide is absolutely for you! Advanced Amazon Fire TV Stick User Guide has been carefully designed to act as a one stop shop for all of your Amazon FireTV Stick needs. The instructions in this book are written in very easy to follow and understand manner to ensure that anyone is able to pick this book and master the device in no time! Going through this book, you will be able to • Understand the core working mechanism behind Fire Stick and get to know why the device is so popular • Learn how to set-up your device from scratch and fire up your Fire Stick TV in a very hassle free and easy to understand way! • Asides from watching videos, learn how to play ...

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Following The Front Wheel West... by J.D. Hodges (437 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

In the summer of 2013 I took a dream motorcycle ride across the country. This is a journal that I kept while making that trip.

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The Colours of Energy: Essays on the Future of Energy in Society [Tablet Version] by Gert Jan Kramer (17 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

In The Colours of Energy - Essays on the Future of Energy in Society, leading energy thinkers explore the future of energy in society. In 36 provoking and inspiring essays, they question established truths and chart possible paths towards a more sustainable future. They share their insights on how to provide energy to an increasingly affluent and growing world population within the boundaries of our planet. The 55 authors are thought leaders in industry, government and academia. Their thinking covers the full range of the issues related to energy transitions. Subjects are as varied as geopolitics, mobility, biomass, geologic climate records, nuclear energy and the ethics of oil recovery. Jorgen Randers (Club of Rome) draws lessons from his seminal The Limits to Growth. Amory Lovins (Rocky Mountain Institute) paints energy efficiency as a disruptive technology. Jeremy Bentham (Shell's scenario group) analyses how global carbon emissions may be reduced to a net zero. The book also ...

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Real World Big Yellow Bus Driver by Mr. Sam (Smashwords) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

Strategies presented in the Real World Big Yellow Bus Driver will improve discipline, reduce referrals, increase safety, increase parental involvement and improve both the recruiting and the retention of school bus drivers. Everyone having an interest in public education should read the Real World Big Yellow Bus Driver.

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Your Complete Guide to Applying for Your PE License and Passing the HVAC and Refrigeration PE Exam - CBT Edition by Blake Boyd (10 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

If you are just starting out on your journey to getting your professional engineering (PE) license, or are looking ahead a few years before you can apply, we can help. We will walk you start to finish through the process of creating and submitting your application to your state board, to study and exam day strategies, tips and tricks. This book is your complete resource for HVAC PE exam prep. We've been there and have helped many others, and we put everything we know into one place. Download today and take the first steps on YOUR journey. We're ready when you are.

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Hyundai and Kia Motors The Early Years and Product Development by Donald Southerton (Bridging Culture Worldwide) (45 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Hyundai and Kia Motors: The Early Years and Product Development by Donald G Southerton provides deep insights into the rise of the Korean car industry. From the 1960s to early 2000s, political and economic forces impacted the growth and development of the South Korean carmakers, including Hyundai and Kia Motors. In addition, the brands at times partnered for technology with Ford, Mazda, and Mitsubishi, along with world class designers like Giorgetto Giugiaro. Expanding rapidly the Korean brands soon looked to new international markets, including the U.S. Despite the failure of Kia Motors to survive the IMF Crisis, the merger with Hyundai led to integrated technology research, development, and manufacturing-- not to mention the economies of scale needed for the Korean automaker to compete globally with industry heavyweights such as Toyota, Ford, GM, and VW. Car models discussed including the Kia's Brisa, Pride, Sephia, Sportage, and Rio along with Hyundai's Pony, Excel and Santa ...

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The Plaston Concept: Plastic Deformation in Structural Materials by Isao Tanaka Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book presents the novel concept of plaston, which accounts for the high ductility or large plastic deformation of emerging high-performance structural materials, including bulk nanostructured metals, hetero-nanostructured materials, metallic glasses, intermetallics, and ceramics.The book describes simulation results of the collective atomic motion associated with plaston, by computational tools such as first-principle methods with predictive performance and large-scale atom-dynamics calculations. Multi-scale analyses with state-of-the art analytical tools nano/micro pillar deformation and nano-indentation experiments are also described. Finally, through collaborative efforts of experimental and computational work, examples of rational design and development of new structural materials are given, based on accurate understanding of deformation and fracture phenomena.This publication provides a valuable contribution to the field of structural materials research.

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Proceedings of the International Conference of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Control Engineering (ICFPMCE 2022) (Atlantis Highlights in Engineering ... by Liang Yan (Atlantis Press) Price verified 9 hours ago

This is an open access book. Since 1985, held 22 times in different cities all over China, ICFPMCE has now been listed in annual academic activities (non-profit) of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM), which has become one of the significant conferences in the field of fluid power and mechatronic control engineering. Under the theme of 'Green Intelligence, Innovative Development', ICFPMCE 2022 aims to provide a platform for the participants who have been working in the fields of Fluid mechanics, hydraulic and electrical engineering. In addition to keynote speeches and technical sessions to be hosted by famous experts over the world, the conference will organize a number of mini-symposia with themes of sharing the experiences of applying for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, dialogues between editors-in-chief of the journals and young scholars, experts and entrepreneurs, as well as innovative technology exhibition etc., in order to ...

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Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: The Human-Data-Technology Nexus: Proceedings of FAIM 2022, June 19–23, 2022, Detroit, Michigan, ... by Kyoung-Yun Kim (Springer) Price verified 15 hours ago

This is an open access book. It gathers the first volume of the proceedings of the 31st edition of the International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM 2022, held on June 19 - 23, 2022, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Covering four thematic areas including Manufacturing Processes, Machine Tools, Manufacturing Systems, and Enabling Technologies, it reports on advanced manufacturing processes, and innovative materials for 3D printing, applications of machine learning, artificial intelligence and mixed reality in various production sectors, as well as important issues in human-robot collaboration, including methods for improving safety. Contributions also cover strategies to improve quality control, supply chain management and training in the manufacturing industry, and methods supporting circular supply chain and sustainable manufacturing. All in all, this book provides academicians, engineers and professionals with extensive information on both scientific ...

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Families Mental Health and Challenges in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Applied Psychology on Humanity (ICAPH ... by Syamsul Arifin (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Families Mental Health and Challenges in the 21st Century contains the papers presented at the 1st International Conference of Applied Psychology on Humanity 2022 (ICAPH 2022, Malang, Indonesia, 27 August 2022). The contributions focus on the challenges in micro-family environments that are faced with rapid developments of technology and information in the 21st century. The issues addressed in the book include: • Family Strengthening • Principles and Practices • Children and Woman Protection • Family Resilience • Crisis and Challenge Families Mental Health and Challenges in the 21st Century is of interest to professionals and academics involved or interested in psychology, the field of mental health and related disciplines. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds by Susan Falls (NYU Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

What our obsession with diamonds reveals about our material culture Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Our stories about diamonds not only reveal what we do with these tiny stones, but also suggest how we create value, meaning, and identity through our interactions with material culture in general. Things become meaningful through our interactions with them, but how do people go about making meaning? What can we learn from an ethnography about the production of identity, creation of kinship, and use of diamonds in understanding selves and social relationships? By what means do people positioned within a globalized political-economy and a compelling universe of advertising interact locally with these tiny polished rocks? This book draws on 12 months of fieldwork with diamond consumers in New York City as well as an analysis of the iconic De Beers campaign that promised romance, status, and glamour to ...

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Autonomous Trajectory Planning and Guidance Control for Launch Vehicles (Springer Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology) by Zhengyu Song (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book highlights the autonomous and intelligent flight control of future launch vehicles for improving flight autonomy to plan ascent and descent trajectories onboard, and autonomously handle unexpected events or failures during the flight. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, space launch activities worldwide have grown vigorously. Meanwhile, commercial launches also account for the booming trend. Unfortunately, the risk of space launches still exists and is gradually increasing in line with the rapidly rising launch activities and commercial rockets. In the history of space launches, propulsion and control systems are the two main contributors to launch failures. With the development of information technologies, the increase of the functional density of hardware products, the application of redundant or fault-tolerant solutions, and the improvement of the testability of avionics, the launch losses caused by control systems exhibita downward trend, and ...

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Aerospace MRO Leader's Guide to Achieving Breakthrough Performance, Within 7 Days! by Steven Foust (5 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

4-Steps to Crush Your Metrics, Regain Leverage and FINALLY Get Home On-Time for Dinner Again! As an Aerospace Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO) leader or professional, it's easy to get buried by the countless distractions and constant stretch on your time, energy, and sanity. For FREE additional resources, go to https://www.aerospaceleader.com (You may need to copy and paste this link into your browser). A successful way to experience breakthrough performance and ultimately thrive in a hyper-competitive MRO environment is to reduce complexity with a few core actions. You can't do everything at once and expect significant change to occur. With intentional focus, the 4-Steps outlined in this guide can be completed and fully implemented within the first 7-days. Once in place, the key is to execute on each of these steps relentlessly, then begin to see the eye opening transformation that will begin to happen! In an easy to read and action biased framework, the "Aerospace ...

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The Jewel City by Ben Macomber (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, ... by David Nunes Carvalho (5 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES: The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021) by Philip F. Yuan Price verified 15 hours ago

This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2021 DigitalFUTURES -- The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021). The work focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engineers in the industry. As well, readers encounter new ideas about understanding material intelligence in architecture.

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Commercial Aviation 101 by Greg Gayden (59 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

Commercial Aviation 101 is an in-depth look at the ins and outs of the commercial aviation industry as it stands today. Featuring a detailed explanation of the various security programs that are in place today, Commercial Aviation 101 will help the reader understand the policies and procedures that have been established to keep the skies of our nation safe. For those who are also interested in learning some of the basics of the commercial aviation industry, Commercial Aviation 101 also features detailed descriptions of common terms and practices used by commercial airlines and airports today. Among other things, eaders will learn how airports make money, how to identify different commercial aircraft as well as dozens of various terms in the Glossary. Commercial Aviation 101 takes the reader through a history of the industry, from its inception to the changes wrought by deregulation in the late 1970s through the current era. For those with very little knowledge of the industry to old ...

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Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing by Rufus Tracy Strohm (3 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

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Ecology of Angola: Terrestrial Biomes and Ecoregions by Brian John Huntley (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified one hour ago

This open access book richly illustrates the first, and comprehensive, account of the country's biomes and ecoregions, the driving forces that account for their diversity and vulnerability, and the ecological principles that provide an understanding of the patterns and processes that have shaped landscapes, ecoregions, and ecosystems. Angola encompasses the greatest diversity of terrestrial biomes and is the second richest in terms of ecoregions, of any African country. Yet its biodiversity and the structure and functioning of its ecosystems are largely undocumented. The author draws on personal field observations from over 50 years of involvement in ecological and conservation studies in Angola and across Southern Africa. The vast recent literature published by researchers in neighboring, better resourced countries provides depth to the accounts of ecological principles and processes relevant to Angola and thus contributing to the understanding and sustainable management of its ...

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5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM 2019): Proceedings of the Symposium in Saint Petersburg, Russia, ... by Jeffrey T. Freymueller (Springer) Price verified 15 hours ago

This open access volume contains the proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM2019) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 1 - 4, 2019. The symposium was hosted by the State Research Center of the Russian Federation Concern CSRI Elektropribor, JSC and was attended by 75 participants from 15 different countries. 32 oral and 20 poster contributions were presented in four different topical sessions: Terrestrial, shipboard and airborne gravimetry, Absolute gravimetry, Relative gravimetry, gravity networks and applications of gravimetry and Cold atom and superconducting gravimeters, gravitational experiments.

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Emerging Science for Sustainable Water Resources Management: A guide for water professionals and practitioners in India by Sunita Sarkar (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

As a society, we are undergoing a number of interconnected changes, from burgeoning populations and rising standards of living, to widespread urbanisation and rapid environmental degradation, all under a changing climate. Together, these changes are having significant impacts on our freshwater systems. Rapid innovation is needed to adapt our water management practices and technologies in order to meet water requirements while maintaining and, where needed, restoring, the ecosystems that provide us with life sustaining services, so that the resource is also protected for the future. This book shows why and how emerging scientific knowledge and new technologies can support sustainable management and use of freshwater resources. It provides an introduction to what new science is out there, where it can contribute to sustainable water resources management, and what the next critical science gaps are that need to be filled. Designed to be accessible, yet comprehensive, the book is ...

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The C-SPAN Archives: An Interdisciplinary Resource for Discovery, Learning, and Engagement (The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research) by Robert X. Browning (Purdue University Press) Price verified 7 hours ago

The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and preserves all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, and research uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, from all House and Senate sessions in the US Congress, to hearings, presidential speeches, conventions, and campaign events, totaling over 200,000 hours, is contained in the video library and is immediately and freely accessible through the database and electronic archival systems developed and maintained by staff. Whereas C-SPAN is best known as a resource for political processes and policy information, the Archives also offers rich educational research and teaching opportunities. This book provides guidance and inspiration to scholars who may be interested in using the Archives to illuminate concepts and processes in varied communication and political science subfields using a range of methodologies for discovery, learning, and engagement. Applications described range from teaching rhetoric to enhancing TV audience's ...

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What News Have You Brought Us Today? (Words to Elate) by Dode Sescri (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Messengers are known to have been attacked for delivering bad news to their bosses and everyday reporters get attacked in their line of duty when gathering newsworthy pieces of information on behalf of the general public. Journalism is the only profession in the whole world where the primary job of the employees is to dig up dirt on others. Well nobody likes being publicly exposed however nice a person they are by nature, when something unfavorable about them gets aired they are naturally inclined to retaliate, which could mean causing harm to the people that dug up dirt on them in the first place. The downside of journalism is that a lot of news the reporters gather is always negative. When you turn on your TV to listen to the evening news, you are bombarded by an endless stream of bad news, so much misery and negativity is what fills the lives of these reporters. Some of those folks' lives completely changed once they became news anchors. And for this same reason, most news ...

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The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin by Antonella Vastola (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource systems and new technologies. The experiences made by the researchers of the School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata offer a wide and multidisciplinary approach to the identification and testing of different solutions tailored to the economic, social and environmental characteristics of the region and the surrounding areas. Basilicata's productive system is mainly based on activities related to the agricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery of oil fields. SAFE research took up the challenge posed by market competition to create value through the sustainable use of renewable and non-renewable resources of the territory. Moreover, due to its unique geographical position in the middle of the ...

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Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Unforeseen, and Paving the Way to a Sustainable Future (FGF Studies in Small ... by Richard Adams Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access edited volume explores the past, present, and future of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship - the unforeseen consequences and ways to advance to a sustainable future. In particular, it connects artificiality, sustainability and entrepreneurship, intertwining artificial with the specific phenomenon of those novel digital technologies that provoke continuous and significant change in our lives and business. Unlike digital entrepreneurship research, which focuses on digital technology development and management, this book covers processes and mechanisms of sustainable adaptability of entrepreneurs, the business logic of start-ups, and the collaborative behaviours under the mass digital transformation, including the prevalence of artificial intelligence. Some of the questions that this book answers are as follows: How has entrepreneurship reacted to such challenges previously? What lessons have been learned and need to be carried forward? How can ...

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Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the ... by Harold Phillips Manly (71 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines by Grace Rogers Cooper (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

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Brain and Human Body Modeling 2020: Computational Human Models Presented at EMBC 2019 and the BRAIN Initiative® 2019 Meeting by Sergey N. Makarov (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

?This open access book describes modern applications of computational human modeling in an effort to advance neurology, cancer treatment, and radio-frequency studies including regulatory, safety, and wireless communication fields. Readers working on any application that may expose human subjects to electromagnetic radiation will benefit from this book's coverage of the latest models and techniques available to assess a given technology's safety and efficacy in a timely and efficient manner. • Describes computational human body phantom construction and application; • Explains new practices in computational human body modeling for electromagnetic safety and exposure evaluations; • Includes a survey of modern applications for which computational human phantoms are critical.

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Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing III: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering & ... by Lionel Roucoules (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book gathers contributions presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2020), held as a web conference on June 2-4, 2020. It reports on cutting-edge topics in product design and manufacturing, such as industrial methods for integrated product and process design; innovative design; and computer-aided design. Further topics covered include virtual simulation and reverse engineering; additive manufacturing; product manufacturing; engineering methods in medicine and education; representation techniques; and nautical, aeronautics and aerospace design and modeling. The book is organized into four main parts, reflecting the focus and primary themes of the conference. The contributions presented here not only provide researchers, engineers and experts in a range of industrial engineering subfields with extensive information to support their daily work; they are also intended to stimulate new research ...

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Embracing the Future: Creative Industries for Environment and Advanced Society 5.0 in a Post-Pandemic Era: Proceedings of the 8th Bandung Creative ... by Rahmiati Aulia (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

By delivering the mindful writings from our selected authors, this book portrays one big idea: a new Human-Centered society that balances economics to resolve problems, especially in the use of an integrated area in cyberspace, physical space, and how it impacts the creative industries. Through The 8th Bandung Creative Movement, scholars from 15 Universities around the Asian and European countries have discussed this issue where Human-Centered society became the main consideration in the development. Three topics are presented to the readers. Firstly, "Sustainable Cities and Communities" explores the sub-fields that construct a more sustainable environment for society post-pandemic era, such as technologies, transportation, interior design, architecture, urban planning, etc. While "Art and Design: Recontextualization of Nusantara Tradition and Indigenous Culture" concerned the novel perspectives on recognizing cultural aspects that shape the face of creative industry, from cultural ...

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Special Topics in Information Technology (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology) by Luigi Piroddi (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book presents thirteen outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this interdisciplinary nature, which is becoming more and more important in recent technological advances, in collaborative projects, and in the education of young researchers. Accordingly, the focus of advanced research is on pursuing a rigorous approach to specific research topics starting from a broad background in various areas of Information Technology, especially Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, and Telecommunications. Each year, more than 50 PhDs graduate from the program. This book gathers the outcomes of the thirteen best theses defended in 2020-21 andselected ...

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Environmental Contaminants in Biota: Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, Second Edition by W. Nelson Beyer (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Discussing the interpretation of tissue concentrations of contaminants in wildlife, this updated edition of a bestseller draws on current scientific research and includes new chapters and greater emphasis on aquatic organisms. Each chapter provides a summary and review of a specific chemical along with direction on research methods and the interpretation of conflicting or insufficient data. Chapters include a comprehensive history of contaminant interpretation in wildlife and fish, the use of tissue residues in ecological risk assessment, and detailed coverage of all bioaccumulative contaminants and their physiologic affects.

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The Stoker's Catechism by W. J. Connor (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

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Development, Social Change and Environmental Sustainability: Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Sociology and Educational ... by Sumarmi (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Nowadays, the concept of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) is starting to replace the concept of MDGs (Millennium Developmental Goals). It is a global goal adopted by all United Nations member states. It emphasizes the idea that the development of every country can only be achieved by balancing other factors such as social, economic, and environmental sustainability. It is already clear how sustainable development works with environmental ethics and management. However, there are still issues regarding the sustainable development and human well-being. Sustainable development should focus on finding a way for society to meet their present needs for the long term without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs. This international seminar provides research results and literature regarding the topic of sustainable development concept, the dynamics of sustainable development and social change, and environmental sustainability. The international seminar, ...

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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 by F. Lavis (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

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Mixed-Criticality Industrial Wireless Networks by Xi Jin (Springer) Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book introduces how to manage important tasks in industrial wireless networks. Important tasks must be completed on time and with guaranteed quality; that is the consensus reached by system designers and users. However, for too long, important tasks have often been given unnecessary urgency, and people intuitively believe that important tasks should be executed first so that their performance can be guaranteed. Actually, in most cases, their performance can be guaranteed even if they are executed later, and the "early" resources can be utilized for other, more urgent tasks. Therefore, confusing importance with urgency hinders the proper use of system resources. In 2007, mixed criticality was proposed to indicate that a system may contain tasks of various importance levels. Since then, system designers and users have distinguished between importance and urgency. In the industrial field, due to the harsh environment they operate in, industrial wireless networks' ...

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Machine Learning and Its Application to Reacting Flows: ML and Combustion (Lecture Notes in Energy Book 44) by Nedunchezhian Swaminathan (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book introduces and explains machine learning (ML) algorithms and techniques developed for statistical inferences on a complex process or system and their applications to simulations of chemically reacting turbulent flows. These two fields, ML and turbulent combustion, have large body of work and knowledge on their own, and this book brings them together and explain the complexities and challenges involved in applying ML techniques to simulate and study reacting flows. This is important as to the world's total primary energy supply (TPES), since more than 90% of this supply is through combustion technologies and the non-negligible effects of combustion on environment. Although alternative technologies based on renewable energies are coming up, their shares for the TPES is are less than 5% currently and one needs a complete paradigm shift to replace combustion sources. Whether this is practical or not is entirely a different question, and an answer to this question ...

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Security of Ubiquitous Computing Systems: Selected Topics by Gildas Avoine (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

The chapters in this open access book arise out of the EU Cost Action project Cryptacus, the objective of which was to improve and adapt existent cryptanalysis methodologies and tools to the ubiquitous computing framework. The cryptanalysis implemented lies along four axes: cryptographic models, cryptanalysis of building blocks, hardware and software security engineering, and security assessment of real-world systems. The authors are top-class researchers in security and cryptography, and the contributions are of value to researchers and practitioners in these domains. This book is open access under a CC BY license.

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Water and Earthquakes (Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences) by Chi-Yuen Wang (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book explores the interactions between water and earthquakes, including recent concerns about induced seismicity. It further highlights that a better understanding of the response of the water system to disturbances such as earthquakes is needed to safeguard water resources, to shield underground waste repositories, and to mitigate groundwater contamination. Although the effects of earthquakes on streams and groundwater have been reported for thousands of years, this field has only blossomed into an active area of research in the last twenty years after quantitative and continuous documentation of field data became available. This volume gathers the important advances that have been made in the field over the past decade, which to date have been scattered in the form of research articles in various scientific journals.

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Electrochemical Supercapacitors for Energy Storage and Delivery: Fundamentals and Applications (Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion) by Aiping Yu (CRC Press) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Although recognized as an important component of all energy storage and conversion technologies, electrochemical supercapacitators (ES) still face development challenges in order to reach their full potential. A thorough examination of development in the technology during the past decade, Electrochemical Supercapacitors for Energy Storage and Delivery: Fundamentals and Applications provides a comprehensive introduction to the ES from technical and practical aspects and crystallization of the technology, detailing the basics of ES as well as its components and characterization techniques. The book illuminates the practical aspects of understanding and applying the technology within the industry and provides sufficient technical detail of newer materials being developed by experts in the field which may surface in the future. The book discusses the technical challenges and the practical limitations and their associated parameters in ES technology. It also covers the structure and ...

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Buildings for Education: A Multidisciplinary Overview of The Design of School Buildings (Research for Development) by Stefano Della Torre (12 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book presents theoretical and practical research relating to the vast, publicly financed program for the construction of new schools and the reorganization of existing educational buildings in Italy. This transformative process aims to give old buildings a fresh identity, to ensure that facilities are compliant with the new educational and teaching models, and to improve both energy efficiency and structural safety with respect to seismic activity. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which focuses on the social role of the school as a civic building that can serve the needs of the community. Innovations in both design and construction processes are then analyzed, paying special attention to the Building Information Modeling (BIM) strategy as a tool for the integration of different disciplines. The final section is devoted to the built heritage and tools, technologies, and approaches for the upgrading of existing buildings so that they meet the new ...

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From Digital Twins to Digital Selves and Beyond: Engineering and Social Models for a Trans-humanist World by Franz Barachini (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book aims at deepening the understanding of the relation between cyber-physical systems (CPSs) as socio-technical systems and their digital representations with intertwined artificial intelligence (AI). The authors describe why it is crucial for digital selves to be able to develop emotional behavior and why a humanity-inspired AI is necessary so that humans and humanoids can coexist. The introductory chapter describes major milestones in computer science which form the basis for the implementation of digital twins and digital selves. The subsequent Part I then lays the foundation to develop a socio-technical understanding of the nature of digital twins as representations and trans-human development objects. Following the conceptual understanding of digital twins and how they could be engineered according to cognitive and organizational structures, Part II forms the groundwork for understanding social behavior and its modeling. It discusses various perception-based ...

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Ohio DMV Exam Workbook: 400+ Practice Questions to Navigate Your DMV Exam With Confidence (DMV practice tests Book 7) by Eric Miles (5 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The Ultimate DMV Exam Guide is Your Roadmap to First-Attempt Success • Feeling the pressure of the upcoming DMV test? • In search of a tool that simplifies the process, boosts your confidence, and increases your chances of success? • Want to ace the driving test on your first attempt? This comprehensive guide is your go-to resource, packed with original test questions crafted to mirror the real DMV exam, taking the uncertainty out of your preparation. This complete, easy-to-follow DMV exam workbook, offers: • Two comprehensive practice tests, each featuring 40 carefully designed questions that mimic the actual DMV exam. • Focused sections on critical areas: road signs, situations and signs, fines & limits, distracted driving, and drinking and driving. • Clear, detailed explanations that provide insight into why the correct answer is right, ensuring a deep understanding of the material. • A bonus section with the top 100 most frequently asked questions and 200 ...

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Rangeland Systems: Processes, Management and Challenges (Springer Series on Environmental Management) by David D. Briske (Springer) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the implications of these conceptual advances to management and policy. The third assesses several major challenges confronting global rangelands in the 21st century. This book will compliment applied range management textbooks by describing the conceptual foundation on which the rangeland profession is based. It has been written to be accessible to a broad audience, including ecosystem managers, educators, students and policy makers. The content is founded on the collective experience, knowledge and commitment of 80 authors who have worked in rangelands throughout the world. Their collective ...

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The Climate-Smart Agriculture Papers: Investigating the Business of a Productive, Resilient and Low Emission Future by Todd S. Rosenstock (Springer) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume shares new data relating to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), with emphasis on experiences in Eastern and Southern Africa. The book is a collection of research by authors from over 30 institutions, spanning the public and private sectors, with specific knowledge on agricultural development in the region discussed. The material is assembled to answer key questions on the following five topic areas: (1) Climate impacts: What are the most significant current and near future climate risks undermining smallholder livelihoods? (2) Varieties: How can climate-smart varieties be delivered quickly and cost-effectively to smallholders? (3) Farm management: What are key lessons on the contributions from soil and water management to climate risk reduction and how should interventions be prioritized? (4) Value chains: How can climate risks to supply and value chains be reduced? and (5) Scaling up: How can most promising climate risks ...

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Alternative Fuels for Transportation (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series) by A S Ramadhas (CRC Press) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Exploring how to counteract the world's energy insecurity and environmental pollution, this volume covers the production methods, properties, storage, engine tests, system modification, transportation and distribution, economics, safety aspects, applications, and material compatibility of alternative fuels. The esteemed editor highlights the importance of moving toward alternative fuels and the problems and environmental impact of depending on petroleum products. Each self-contained chapter focuses on a particular fuel source, including vegetable oils, biodiesel, methanol, ethanol, dimethyl ether, liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas, hydrogen, electric, fuel cells, and fuel from nonfood crops.

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Microplastic in the Environment: Pattern and Process (Environmental Contamination Remediation and Management) by Michael S. Bank (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and its subsequent effects on biota, food security, and human exposure. Importantly, global environmental change and its associated, systems-level processes, including atmospheric deposition, ecosystem complexity, UV exposure, wind patterns, water stratification, ocean circulation, etc., are all important direct and indirect factors governing the fate, transport and biotic and abiotic processing of plastic particles across ecosystem types. Furthermore, the distribution of plastic in the ocean is not independent of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics, since much of the plastic in marine ecosystems originates from land and should therefore be evaluated in the context of the larger plastic cycle. Changes in species size, distribution, habitat, and food ...

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Proceedings of the 2020 DigitalFUTURES: The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020) by Philip F. Yuan (Springer) Price verified 15 hours ago

This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2020 DigitalFUTURES -- The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020). The book focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engineers in the industry. As well, readers will encounter new ideas about understanding intelligence in architecture.

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Automotive Repair Shop Mistakes by Eli Koorey (13 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

If you've ever had that lump in your throat when your vehicle began acting up this book is for you. You will learn about common practices repair shops use to burn their customers, how to spot these tricks, and how to handle them along the way. You don't have to be an expert in the automotive field. This book is for everyone! Especially one with very limited automotive knowledge.

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Proceedings of the 6th FIRST 2022 International Conference (FIRST-ESCSI 2022) (Atlantis Highlights in Engineering Book 14) by Nyayu Latifah Husni Price verified 6 hours ago

This is an open access book.The 6th FIRST 2022 International Conference offers the researchers in academics, industries, and governments, a conference, for exchanging, sharing, following up, and discussing the results of the latest researches, industry's needs, and government regulatory policies. The 6th FIRST 2022 International Conference facilitates the participants from all over the world to meet face to face to open chances in establishing connections and collaboration among them.

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Assessing Environmental Risk of Oil Spills with ERA Acute: A New Methodology (SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science) by Cathrine Stephansen Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book introduces readers to a new methodology for assessing the risks to the marine environment following accidental oil spills. The methodology will soon be implemented on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and will be complemented by guidelines for its use in a regulatory framework. The brief book is intended to provide international readers with a basic grasp of what the ERA Acute methodology consists of, what its applications are, and the underlying impact and restoration models used in its development. The content is divided into three main parts: an introduction and overview of risk management applications for generalists at the management level, a model overview for generalist scientists, and a more detailed final section for risk assessment professionals, which presents the results of the validation and sensitivity testing.

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Monte Carlo N-Particle Simulations for Nuclear Detection and Safeguards: An Examples-Based Guide for Students and Practitioners by John S. Hendricks (Springer) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book is a pedagogical, examples-based guide to using the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP®) code for nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation applications. The MCNP code, general-purpose software for particle transport simulations, is widely used in the field of nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation for numerous applications including detector design and calibration, and the study of scenarios such as measurement of fresh and spent fuel. This book fills a gap in the existing MCNP software literature by teaching MCNP software usage through detailed examples that were selected based on both student feedback and the real-world experience of the nuclear safeguards group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. MCNP input and output files are explained, and the technical details used in MCNP input file preparation are linked to the MCNP code manual. Benefiting from the authors' decades of experience in MCNP simulation, this book is essential reading for students, academic ...

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Handbook Of Climate Change And Agroecosystems: The Agricultural Model Intercomparison And Improvement Project (Agmip) Integrated Crop And Economic ... by Rosenzweig Cynthia & Hillel Daniel (62 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

"Top agricultural scientists from around the world have taken up the challenge of sustainable agriculture, with the specific focus on integrating agronomic, climatological, biophysical and socio-economic perspectives and processes. Every chapter (of the Handbook) contributes to addressing the growing food-security challenges facing the world."Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia UniversityClimate effects on agriculture are of increasing concern in both the scientific and policy communities because of the growing population and the greater uncertainty in the weather during growing seasons. Changes in production are directly linked to variations in temperature and precipitation during the growing season and often to the offseason changes in weather because of soil water storage to replenish the soil profile. This is not an isolated problem but one of worldwide interest because each country has concerns about their food security.The Agricultural Model ...

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Optimization-Based Energy Management for Multi-energy Maritime Grids (Springer Series on Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Shipbuilding and ... by Sidun Fang (2 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

This open access book discusses the energy management for the multi-energy maritime grid, which is the local energy network installed in harbors, ports, ships, ferries, or vessels. The grid consists of generation, storage, and critical loads. It operates either in grid-connected or in islanding modes, under the constraints of both power system and transportation system. With full electrification, the future maritime grids, such as all-electric ships and seaport microgrids, will become "maritime multi-energy system" with the involvement of multiple energy, i.e., electrical power, fossil fuel, and heating/cooling power. With various practical cases, this book provides a cross-disciplinary view of the green and sustainable shipping via the energy management of maritime grids. In this book, the concepts and definitions of the multi-energy maritime grids are given after a comprehensive literature survey, and then the global and regional energy efficiency policies for the maritime ...

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AVENUE21. Connected and Automated Driving: Prospects for Urban Europe by Mathias Mitteregger (Springer Vieweg) Price verified 15 hours ago

This open access publication examines the impact of connected and automated vehicles on the European city and the conditions that can enable this technology to make a positive contribution to urban development. The authors argue for two theses that have thus far received little attention in scientific discourse: as connected and automated vehicles will not be ready for use in all parts of the city for a long time, previously assumed effects - from traffic safety to traffic performance as well as spatial effects - will need to be re-evaluated. To ensure this technology has a positive impact on the mobility of the future, transport and settlement policy regulations must be adapted and further developed. Established territorial, institutional and organizational boundaries must be investigated and challenged quickly. Despite - or, indeed, because of - the many uncertainties, we find ourselves at the beginning of a new design phase, not only in terms of technology development, but also ...

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Energy-Efficient and Semi-automated Truck Platooning: Research and Evaluation (Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure) by Alexander Schirrer Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book presents research and evaluation results of the Austrian flagship project "Connecting Austria," illustrating the wide range of research needs and questions that arise when semi-automated truck platooning is deployed in Austria. The work presented is introduced in the context of work in similar research areas around the world. This interdisciplinary research effort considers aspects of engineering, road-vehicle and infrastructure technologies, traffic management and optimization, traffic safety, and psychology, as well as potential economic effects. The book's broad perspective means that readers interested in current and state-of-the-art methods and techniques for the realization of semi-automated driving and with either an engineering background or with a less technical background gain a comprehensive picture of this important subject. The contributors address many questions such as: • Which maneuvers does a platoon typically have to carry out, and ...

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Contracting and Safety: Exploring Outsourcing Practices in High-Hazard Industries (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology) by Jan Hayes Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book examines the increase in outsourcing, contracting and subcontracting as ways of organising work. It explores the impact of these employment arrangements on public safety, particularly when they are linked to complex supply networks in a range of engineering industries including oil and gas, nuclear power and aviation. The brief provides practical recommendations on how best to manage arrangements that target short-term profitability and also maintain excellence in long-term safety outcomes. The brief is a source of advice for organisations on how to maximise the benefits and minimise long-term system reliability issues that can be introduced by contracting and outsourcing, rather than assuming it to be a wholly negative or positive practice. Contracting and Safety comprises qualitative, empirical studies focusing on high-reliability organisation. As such, this brief provides a rich picture of the experience of working in complex supply chains. It will be of ...

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Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology (Routledge Studies in Religion) by Caesar A. Montevecchio (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This book explores the role of Catholic peacebuilding in addressing the global mining industry. Mining is intimately linked to issues of conflict, human rights, sustainable development, governance, and environmental justice. As an institution of significant scope and scale with a large network of actors at all levels and substantial theoretical and ethical resources, the Catholic Church is well positioned to acknowledge the essential role of mining, while challenging unethical and harmful practices, and promoting integral peace, development, and ecology. Drawing together theology, ethics, and praxis, the volume reflects the diversity of Catholic action on mining and the importance of an integrated approach. It includes contributions by an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars and practitioners. They examine Catholic action on mining in El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Philippines. They also address general issues of corporate ...

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Regularized System Identification: Learning Dynamic Models from Data (Communications and Control Engineering) by Gianluigi Pillonetto (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book provides a comprehensive treatment of recent developments in kernel-based identification that are of interest to anyone engaged in learning dynamic systems from data. The reader is led step by step into understanding of a novel paradigm that leverages the power of machine learning without losing sight of the system-theoretical principles of black-box identification. The authors' reformulation of the identification problem in the light of regularization theory not only offers new insight on classical questions, but paves the way to new and powerful algorithms for a variety of linear and nonlinear problems. Regression methods such as regularization networks and support vector machines are the basis of techniques that extend the function-estimation problem to the estimation of dynamic models. Many examples, also from real-world applications, illustrate the comparative advantages of the new nonparametric approach with respect to classic parametric prediction error ...

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The Sanitation Triangle: Socio-Culture, Health and Materials (Global Environmental Studies) by Taro Yamauchi (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book deals with global sanitation, where SDG 6.2 sets a target of enabling access to sanitation services for all, but has not yet been achieved in low- and middle-income countries. The transition from the United Nations MDGs to the SDGs requires more consideration based on the socio-cultural aspects of global sanitation. In other words, equitable sanitation for those in vulnerable situations could be based on socio-cultural contexts. Sanitation is a system that comprises not only a latrine but also the works for the treatment and disposal of human waste. Sanitation systems do not function by themselves but have significance only through social management. The process of decision-making also largely depends on socio-cultural conditions, and the importance of sanitation needs to be socially acknowledged. The health benefits of sanitation improvement -- among the significant contributions of sanitation -- also need to be considered in the socio-cultural milieu. Further, ...

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Robot Journalism: Can Human Journalism Survive? (Social Issues Human Security) by Noam Lemelshtrich Latar (World Scientific) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing all aspects of communications and journalism as automatic processes are being introduced into all facets of classical journalism: investigation, content production, and distribution. Traditional human roles in these fields are being replaced by automatic processes and robots.The first section of this book focuses on a discussion of AI, the new emerging field of robot journalism, and the opportunities that AI limitations create for human journalists. The second section offers examples of the new journalism storytelling that empower human journalists using new technologies, new applications, and AI tools. While this book focuses on journalism, the discussion and conclusions are relevant to all content creators, including professionals in the advertising industry, which is a major main source of support for journalism.

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The Digital Shopfloor- Industrial Automation in the Industry 4.0 Era: Performance Analysis and Applications by John Soldatos (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

In today's competitive global environment, manufacturers are offered with unprecedented opportunities to build hyper-efficient and highly flexible plants, towards meeting variable market demand, while at the same time supporting new production models such as make-to-order (MTO), configure-to-order (CTO) and engineer-to-order (ETO). During the last couple of years, the digital transformation of industrial processes is propelled by the emergence and rise of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry4.0). The latter is based on the extensive deployment of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies in the manufacturing shopfloor, as well as on the seamless and timely exchange of digital information across supply chain participants. The benefits of Industry 4.0 have been already proven in the scope of pilot and production deployments in a number of different use cases including flexibility in automation, predictive maintenance, zero ...

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Exploring New Horizons and Challenges for Social Studies in a New Normal: Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Studies and ... by Idris (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

The new standards and changes exist in social science studies. Covid 19, especially in Indonesia, at the end of 2019, has an impact on changes in every sector of life. This change is a form of community adaptation. Therefore, this conference aims to explore theoretical and practical developments of the social sciences, to build academic networks while gathering academics from various research institutes and universities. This book provides the new standard and encourages many thoughts in theoretical and empirical studies in the social field. The scope that can be generated in this standard includes patterns, opportunities, and challenges in social science, learning to new standards, learning innovation, and implementing new learning standards in Indonesia, which was adopted in the form of the Merdeka Belajar program. The study results will fill the gaps in knowledge in the new social life and social science. Therefore, this book aims to mediate the researchers in the same field to ...

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The Coupling of Safety and Security: Exploring Interrelations in Theory and Practice (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology) by Corinne Bieder (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, and discusses the methodological, organizational and institutional implications that accompany approaching them as separate entities and combining them, respectively. The book explores the coupling of safety and security from different perspectives, especially: the concepts and methods of risk, safety and security; the managerial aspects; user experiences in connection with safety and security. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of safety and security, and to anyone working at a business or in an industry concerned with how safety and security should be managed.

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Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering (ICUME 2021), June ... by Peter F. Pelz (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book reports on methods and technologies to describe, evaluate and control uncertainty in mechanical engineering applications. It brings together contributions by engineers, mathematicians and legal experts, offering a multidisciplinary perspective on the main issues affecting uncertainty throughout the complete system lifetime, which includes process and product planning, development, production and usage. The book is based on the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering (ICUME 2021), organized by the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 805 of the TU Darmstadt, and held online on June 7-8, 2021. All in all, it offers a timely resource for researchers, graduate students and practitioners in the field of mechanical engineering, production engineering and engineering optimization.

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Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability (Springer Water) by Wolfgang Kinzelbach Price verified 15 hours ago

Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought relief. Stopping or reversing the trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain serves as an example. A management system is set up for a typical county. It contains three components: monitoring, decision support based on modelling, and implementation in the field. Besides all monitoring data, the decision support module contains an irrigation calculator, a box model, and a distributed groundwater model to project the outcomes of different water allocation scenarios. In view of grain security, a solution combines an adaptation of the cropping system with imports of surface water from the South. The Open Access book does not only describe the problem and the path to its ...

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Damage to Concrete Structures by Geert De Schutter (CRC Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Serious degradation mechanisms can severely reduce the service life of concrete structures: steel reinforcement can corrode, cement matrix can be attacked, and even aggregates can show detrimental processes. Therefore, it is important to understand how damage can occur to concrete structures and to appreciate the timing of the actions leading to damage. Damage to Concrete Structures summarizes the state-of-the-art information on the degradation of concrete structures, and gives a clear and comprehensive overview of what can go wrong. Offering a logical flow, the chapters are ordered according to the chronological timing of the actions leading to concrete damage. The author explains the different actions or mechanisms in a fundamental manner, without too many physical or chemical details, to provide greater clarity and readability. The book describes the different causes of damage to concrete, including inappropriate design, errors during execution, mechanisms occurring during ...

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Ground Improvement by Deep Vibratory Methods by Klaus Kirsch (2 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

Vibro compaction and vibro stone columns are the two dynamic methods of soil improvement most commonly used worldwide. These methods have been developed over almost eighty years and are now of unrivalled importance as modern foundation measures. Vibro compaction works on granular soils by densification, and vibro stone columns are used to displace and reinforce fine-grained and cohesive soils by introducing inert material. This second edition includes also a chapter on vibro concrete columns constructed with almost identical depth vibrators. These small diameter concrete piles are increasingly used as ground improvement methods for moderately loaded large spread foundations, although the original soil characteristics are only marginally improved. This practical guide for professional geotechnical engineers and graduate students systematically covers the theoretical basis and design principles behind the methods, the equipment used during their execution, and state of the art ...

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Special Topics in Information Technology (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology) by Angelo Geraci (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

This open access book presents thirteen outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this interdisciplinary nature, which is becoming more and more important in recent technological advances, in collaborative projects, and in the education of young researchers. Accordingly, the focus of advanced research is on pursuing a rigorous approach to specific research topics starting from a broad background in various areas of Information Technology, especially Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, and Telecommunications. Each year, more than 50 PhDs graduate from the program. This book gathers the outcomes of the thirteen best theses defended in 2019-20 and ...

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Structural Health Monitoring Damage Detection Systems for Aerospace (Springer Aerospace Technology) by Markus G. R. Sause (4 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book presents established methods of structural health monitoring (SHM) and discusses their technological merit in the current aerospace environment. While the aerospace industry aims for weight reduction to improve fuel efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and to decrease maintenance time and operating costs, aircraft structures are often designed and built heavier than required in order to accommodate unpredictable failure. A way to overcome this approach is the use of SHM systems to detect the presence of defects. This book covers all major contemporary aerospace-relevant SHM methods, from the basics of each method to the various defect types that SHM is required to detect to discussion of signal processing developments alongside considerations of aerospace safety requirements. It will be of interest to professionals in industry and academic researchers alike, as well as engineering students. This article/publication is based upon work from COST Action CA18203 ...

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Climate Change and Community Resilience: Insights from South Asia by A. K. Enamul Haque (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book documents myriads of ways community-based climate change adaptation and resilience programs are being implemented in South Asian countries. The narrative style of writing in this volume makes it accessible to a diverse audience from academics and researchers to practitioners in various governmental, non-governmental and international agencies. At a time when climate change presents humanity with a gloomy future, the stories of innovation, creativity, grassroots engagement and locally applicable solutions highlighted in this book provides insights into hopeful ways of approaching climate solutions. South Asian countries have been dealing with the impact of climate change for decades and thus offer valuable learning opportunities for developing countries within and beyond the region as well as many western countries that are confronting the wrath of climate induced natural disasters more recently. SANDEE has been a pioneer in the development of research and ...

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